A chicken vendor paints placards before participating in a demonstration outside Hong Kong's biggest wholesale market December 31, to demand compensation from the government for slaughtering their chickens. More than 1,000 government workers have been working around the clock since Monday to kill 1.3 million chickens thought possibly to have infected humans with the deadly "bird flu" virus.

A chicken vendor paints placards before participating in a demonstration outside Hong Kong's biggest wholesale market December 31, to demand compensation from the government for slaughtering their chickens. More than 1,000 government workers have been working around the clock since Monday to kill 1.3 million chickens thought possibly to have infected humans with the deadly "bird flu" virus.